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Market shake-up spurs ETF demand

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
Financial advisers are playing a key role in helping offset the current volatility by steering investors towards exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETF giant iShares, which is offered by Barclays Global Investors, is at the vanguard of this phenomenon. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower according to the March SPI futures index, but New York is trading higher on record oil prices and base metal prices were stronger in London overnight. At 0800 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Despite a 25 per cent drop in the MSCI Emerging Asia Index since last October, there's growing evidence that the region has de-coupled sufficiently from the US economy not to follow it into what could be a deeper recession than 2001. While exports and ...

Funds SA splurges $1.4b on mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Funds SA has awarded $1.4 billion in mandates to a trio of leading fund managers in a move to strengthen the fund's quantitative portfolio. The South Australian-based funds manager recently appointed Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management (GSJBW) with ...

Aussie investors jump on emerging markets iShares

Barely three months in the market but the newly launched exchange traded funds (ETFs) by Barclays Global Investors (BGI) called iShares are fast gaining traction, with emerging markets iShares on top of the list for investors. The latest BGI report ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
There may still be plenty of questions over the virtue and mechanics of the planned "freezing" of loan interest rates for several hundred thousand distressed home loan borrowers in the US. The US government formally outlined the plan this morning without ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

T-Charter has limitations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
Super funds must understand the T-Charter document regarding transition managers, although a positive step, fails to provide adequate standards to evaluate transition managers, according to Russell Investments. In October State Street, Barclays Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower with stock index futures in the red, however, the United States is pointing the way higher after Citigroup Inc got a $US7.5 billion ($A8.6 billion) capital injection from Abu Dhabi, adding to confidence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is likely to open higher today, after a positive ending to Friday's trade in New York. At 0753 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was up 25 points to 6723. Today, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth ...